Pages

Friday, 29 January 2016

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

How Nigerian cult group traffics women into Europe 
Ramon Oladimeji


The Spanish police have raised the alarm about a Nigerian cult group, Supreme Eiye Confraternity, which is running a human trafficking racket and using British airports including Gatwick as entry points to traffic Nigerian women into Europe.

LAW & SECURITY

France's anti-terrorism laws leave Muslims in a state of fear
By Amar Toor 

Getty Paris Military Marie was feeding her twin daughters when the raid began. It was a little after 8PM on a Thursday, and she heard a loud commotion outside her apartment in the suburbs of Paris. The order came minutes later: "Police! Open your door!"

EUROPEAN UNION

European nations slap new restrictions on migrants

Paris (AFP) - European nations have adopted a raft of restrictive measures since the beginning of the year as they seek to stem an influx of asylum seekers: While Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden, did so in a bid to better control the influx of migrants, France also reestablished checks in reaction to the terrorist threat after last November's multiple attacks.

Thursday, 28 January 2016

WORLDVIEWS

A German Muslim female soldier speaks out against bigotry
By Ishaan Tharoor

Embedded image permalinkNariman Reinke is a 36-year-old daughter of Moroccan immigrants. She is German, she is Muslim, and she is a soldier in the Bundeswehr, or the German army. And now she's become a public figure, taking a stand against what she perceives to be the rather toxic conversation of the moment. That's been fueled by widespread fears over the arrival in Germany of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and other migrants during the past year. Migrants and men of Arab and North African descent were implicated in a grim spate of attacks and incidents of sexual harassment in the city of Cologne on New Year's Eve. The backlash in Germany and elsewhere in Europe was pronounced.

IMMIGRATION & POLICY

Sweden expects to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers
By Pia Ohlin

Stockholm (AFP) - Sweden said it expects to expel up to 80,000 migrants whose asylum requests will likely be rejected, as another 24 people including children drowned off Greece Thursday in the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean.

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

OPINION FEATURE

The Igbo-Yoruba feud
By Chuks Iloegbunam

Awo & Zik
THE feud between the Igbo and the Yoruba ethnic groups is contrived, just like the feud between the Igbo and the Ikwere. Whenever these feuds take centre stage, the impetus is invariably traceable to the divide-and-rule imperative, which inevitably profits the oligarchy of northern Nigeria. Every other explanation adduced in the explanation of the phenomenon can only be peripheral. It is important to make this point from the outset, before going about the business of explanations - for the benefit of those who may genuinely be ignorant of a crucial factor in the continued inability to resolve some of the more critical of Nigeria's contradictions.

Tuesday, 26 January 2016

NIGERIAN AFFAIRS

America & United Kingdom don't recognise Biafran passport 
By Eniola Akinkuotu

 
The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom have said they do not recognise the passports being issued by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

IMMIGRATION & LAW

Denmark passes tough migrant law as Nordic refugee welcome dims
By Alexander Tange

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's parliament passed measures on Tuesday aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum, including confiscating valuables to pay for their stay, despite protests from international human rights organizations.

IMMIGRATION

German refugee camps are so awful that refugees are trying to get passports to return home
Barbara Tasch

Migrants queue on a street to enter the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs (LAGESO) for their registration process in Berlin, Germany, in this December 9, 2015 file picture. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/FilesA trickle of Syrian refugees have decided their best bet is a risky crossing to the West at the hands of smugglers
The conditions in German refugee shelters are so bad that some refugees would rather return to the homes they fled than stay where they are.

POLICY & POLITICS

Tanzania loves its new anti-corruption president. Why is he shutting down media outlets?
By Ruth Carlitz and Constantine Manda

Tanzania’s new President Magufuli has been given a comic Twitter hashtag, #WhatWould MagufuliDo?, after introducing radical government cutbacks just days into the job. He even banned government Christmas cards to cut back on costs.

IMMIGRATION PALAVER

Following Danes and Swiss, Germans now confiscating cash and valuables from 'Migrants'
By Michael Walsh

As it dawns on Germans that they've been had in more ways than one, local governments within the Federal Republic are gradually beginning to come to their senses. Although the evil that Angela Merkel has done will live on long after she is gone, the only way that Germany can hope to preserve its culture, language and traditions in the face of an alien demographic tidal wave is to crack down now. A first step:

Sunday, 24 January 2016

PROTEST


Hungarians rally against government's anti-terror plans

Budapest (AFP) - Hundreds of people rallied in Budapest on Sunday against government plans to bring in anti-terror measures including restrictions on the Internet and curfews. "The plan would put an end to democracy once and for all," protest organiser Lajos Bokros told the crowd in front of the Hungarian parliament, estimated by an AFP reporter at around 800 strong.

PEOPLE & JUSTICE

Ogoni: A  pathetic story of a people

The story of the Ogoni is not new. A well known and established case of state repression against civil rights. A rather pathetic story of a people repressed by their own government, dehumanized by those who should protect them, a repression backed by the unethical global giant - The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, an affiliate of Shell International. As lethal and ruthless as the Ogoni repression has been, the good news is that the people have resolved to sustain it for the good of all. It is a resolve to live and not give up to the desires of the Nigerian oppressors who seek to kill and cover up their evil against the Ogoni.